Q: War rages quietly in my three apple trees. I have a beautiful, healthy army of ladybugs and nymphs trying to control the aphid population. I have tried the following to eliminate ants from climbing ...

There's a species of ant that is so rare, only a handful of records exist from across the entire eastern United States. North Carolina State University researcher Michelle Kirchner not only found ...

Ants known to defend certain species of Acacia trees from elephant predation deter the massive herbivores so effectively that they are impacting entire savanna ecosystems, according to a study ...

A frontal view of an Aphaenogaster mariae worker ant. This ant species had rarely been documented, but N.C. State student Michelle Kirchner collected a colony of the ants from trees in Wake County. A ...

Ants are famous for their regimented and complex social behaviors. In the tropics, they are also famous for forming mutualisms with plants. Certain species of trees have conspicuous hollow swellings ...

Some garden plants are ant magnets — but not always for the wrong reasons. Here's when to worry and when to let them march on ...

Q A large branch broke off our maple tree last fall. There was no wind or any cause that we could tell, except that there were carpenter ants all over it. Would the ants have gotten into the whole ...

Nobody wants to discover a bunch of anthills in their outdoor space, but what could be the cause of these unsightly lumps? Dr. Allan Cabrero, entomologist and National Science Foundation postdoctoral ...

The native ants were particularly good at protecting the trees from the local elephant population, swarming up the noses of any elephant unfortunate enough to come in for a snack. As the big-headed ...